A Laymen’s Guide to Understanding How to Hedge Risk (ie. avoid it altogether)

In Simple Terms: Risk-Free (Free Money!) Futures Trading by Leveraging Options Strategy

Seriously, read now if you’re looking to make money online by trading Bitcoin or Cryptocurrencies!

Introduction

In short: using an options strategy, we can trade any sideways futures strategy with absolutely 0 risk. Price movements up, down, or sideways all yield profitable results. Markets go bullish, bearish, sideways or do a dance — you win no matter what!

Awhile ago, on my Hackernoon, I penned this technical article on Risk-Free Futures Market Making by Hedging Long Straddle Options. In this article I will strive to deliver the points discussed in that first article to a less technical audience — who might be left scratching their heads.

What I mean by ‘sideways’ is that the futures strategy wants to earn the best it can when the markets are neither upwards (bullish) or downwards (bearish).

Options Strategy

Places like Deribit via Deribit and Deribit (yes, two separate accounts) and Binance’s JEX platform via Binance and Miko Ilas…